Drivers hunt for prime parking spaces in the White Street parking lot in Red Bank. This parking lot has been considered in the past as a site for a parking garage.

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Building a downtown parking garage on the site of the existing White Street parking lot could be studied again this year after a similar plan to hire experts to advise the borough was scuttled two years ago.

Councilman Michael Dupont said he plans to raise the issue of hiring an engineer and consultant at the council's next meeting on March 12, almost two years after a similar plan was shelved by officials because of budget issues.

"Due to the economic downturn, it didn't happen,"Dupont said. "I raised the issue a couple of years ago to hire a consultant and an engineer to have experts to provide ...